A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Using Neglected Literary Texts to Understand the Evolution of Serbian Society
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
12:00 pm
Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (1219 IAB, 420 West 118th St.)

Please join the Harriman Institute and the Njegoš Endowment for Serbian Language and Culture for a talk by Svetlana Tomić, Alfa University (Belgrade).

Tomić will discuss the historical, political, and literary value of four memoirs by Serbian women: Serbia’s Queen Natalia Obrenović, feminists Savka Subotić and Paulina Lebl Albala, and one of the first professional female teachers Stanka Gišićeva. Their autobiographical works came from different localities, social groups, and ethnicities. They focus on self-representation, women’s lives, and perceptions, and offer valuable insights into Serbian history and society.

Tomić argues that, although women’s memoirs have remained culturally marginalized in Serbia, studying the neglected writings of women opens the possibility for a better appreciation of society and its ability to transform. How do female memoirists contrast with male writers such as Đorđević, Milićević, and Žujović? Can we find contradictions in their confessional dramas and see the motives for their writing? What can we conclude by comparing the writings of men and women from the period when the Serbian nation was formed? How can we generalize the difference and use it as an instrument for a better understanding of social developments not only in Serbia but in the wider Western Balkans region?

Организација српских студената у иностранству повезује 8.000 академаца, промовише нашу земљу у свету, помаже дипломцима који желе да стечена знања примене у Србији и утиче на побољшање овдашњих просветних закона.

О њима се у домаћој јавности не зна много, иако окупљају око 8.000 наших студената који имају индексе универзитета широм света, а током протеклих година били су иницијатори промена у нашем високом образовању. Они су Организација српских студената у иностранству и права адреса за све који желе да се школују на иностраним универзитетима и да се са тамо стеченим дипломама запосле у Србији. ОССИ је ангажована и на промоцији наше земље у свету, а недавно је на основу њихових предлога за нострификацију диплома измењен и Закон о високом образовању.

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Founders Invitation
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Председник Србиjе Tомислав Николић и генерални секретар УН Бан Kи-Мун сложили су се да би страдање српске културне баштине на Kосову и Mетохиjи био злочин и да се то не сме дозволити, а Николић jе затражио подршку како би се спречио приjем Kосова у Унеско и српска баштина заштитила.

ЊУJOРK - Председники Србиjе Tомислав Николић и генерални секретар УН Бан Kи-Мун сложили су се да би страдање српске културне баштине на Kосову и Mетохиjи био злочин и да се то не сме дозволити, а Николић jе затражио подршку како би се спречио приjем Kосова у Унеско и српска баштина заштитила.

"Велики злочин би био, ако би српска културна баштина на Kосову и Mетохиjи била уништена. Зато Србиjа улаже много напора да спречи приjем такозване Републике Kосово у Унеско. И зато очекуjемо подршку свих оних коjи поступаjу по савести, да би српска културна баштина, коjа jе и светска уjедно, остала заштићена", рекао jе Николић током сусрета са генералним секретаром УН у Њуjорку, саопштила jе данас Служба за сарадњу с медиjима председника.

The Njegos Foundation for Serbian Language and Culture presents EVAPORATING BORDERS a film by Iva Radivojević.

Friday, September 25, 2015, 6:00pm, Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (1219 IAB, 420 West 118th St.)

Originally from Yugoslavia, a country that no longer exists except in books and films, Iva Radivojević’s family immigrated to Cyprus to escape political unrest. Raised in Cyprus, she is approaching the film as a personal exploration of what it means to have a hybrid existence in which one is always searching for an identity.

Дани Новак имао је непуне две године када се из Загреба одселио у Израел, а потом у САД. Ипак, није заборавио страдања чланова своје породице у усташким логорима на острву Паг.

Дани Новак, професор математике на Итака колеџу у Њујорку, доживео је током протеклог викенда непријатан инцидент. Хрватска полиција спречила je израелскo-америчку филмску екипу, с којом је био на Пагу, да сними делове овог острва, где се током 1941. године налазио усташки концентрациони логор.

Ко је њујоршки професор који се тренутно налази у родном Загребу и зашто је његов долазак са израелским и америчким сниматељима изазвао такву узбуну на Метајни, где се налазио логор смрти за српску, јеврејску и ромску жене и децу?

Припадник Специјалне антитерористичке јединице Јовица Спајић истрчао најтежу трку издржљивости на свету организовану у Калифорнији и међу стотину ултрамаратонских „аждаја” освојио осмо место.

Док уздишемо на 37 степени и жалимо се да нам је дојадила тропска врућина, ултрамаратонац Јовица Спајић, и припадник Специјалне антитерористичке јединице, ћути и загонетно се смешка. Он је на температури која је у хладу „шетала” од 50 до 60 степени за 29 сати успео да савлада Долину смрти, масиве Сијера Неваде, и истрчи најтежу трку издржљивости на свету – „Бедвотер 135”. Она је организована у Калифорнији, на најтоплијем месту на свету, а Јовица је, међу 100 најбољих светских тркача на дуге стазе, освојио осмо место.

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On Monday, July 27, 2015, Bishop Maxim met with the Most Blessed John X (Yazigi), Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East and presented as a gift the book on Christian Heritage of Kosovo and Metohija. Patriarch John thanked the Serbian Bishop and compared the persecution of Serbs in Kosovo, the cradle of Serbian people, with the suffering of Christians in the Middle East, the cradle of Christianity. Yet so many instances of persecution against Orthodox and other Christian populations both in Syria and in Kosovo have gone unnoticed and unreported by our media. In these countries Christians are at best second-class citizens, and are sometimes even treated as aliens in their own countries, denied basic civil rights and the protection of law.

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Bishop Grigorije (Udicki)

(1963–1985)

As the son of Stevan Udicki, notary, and Anica Udicki Pavlovich, he was born on January 14, 1911, in Velika Kikinda, Banat. He finished the public and secondary school at Velika Kikinda and Timisoara (Romania), the Seminary in Sremski Karlovci (Yugoslavia) in 1930, when he entered the University of Belgrade and finished the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in June 1934.

After the military service in the Red Cross company in Bitola (Yugoslavia) in 1934/35, he became a teacher of the Seminary and gymnasium in Bitola on March 15, 1935. On November 14, he was ordained a priest, on special duty at the monastery church of St. John the Baptist in Bitola till 1938, when passed the examination of a Master degree.

He took monastic vows in the Monastery of Hilandar in 1936.

In September 1938 he went to the U.S.A., to Libertyville, Illinois, taking up there the job of a secretary of the Orthodox Diocese and later on duty of a priest at the Holy Trinity Church at Butte, Montana. In order to complete the studies necessary for getting the PhD degree, he went in 1939 to Athens (Greece), but soon returned to Yugoslavia because of the war between Greece and Italy. Having transferred studies to the University of Belgrade he passed the examination on June 11, 1940. Working on preparation of the dissertation he went to Petrovgrad, Banat (Yugoslavia), where he remained till 1945. During the wartime between Yugoslavia and Germany, he was just a manual worker, and later in 1943 he became again a teacher in Gymnasium and helped at the Church in Petrovgrad. In June 1945 he was forced by communists to leave because of his faith.

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Publishing

History, Truth, Holiness

by Bishop Maxim Vasiljevic

Bishop Maxim’s first book, described by Fr. John Breck as an “exceptionally important collection of essays” contributing to both the theology of being and also contemporary theological questions, is now available! Christos Yannaras describes Bishop Maxim as “a theologian who illumines” and Fr. John McGuckin identifies his work as “deeply biblical and patristic, academically learned yet spiritually rich.” The first half of the book collects papers emphasizing theological ontology and epistemology, reminding us how both the mystery of the Holy Trinity and that of the Incarnation demand that we rethink every philosophical supposition; it includes chapters on holiness as otherness, truth and history, and the biochemistry of freedom. The second half of the book features lectures dedicated to the theological questions posed by modern theology, including studies of Orthodox and Roman Catholic ecclesiology, liturgics, and the theology of icons.